Sentence examples for of a misapprehension from inspiring English sources

"This is too horrible of a misapprehension of everything".

But it was silly of Pfeiffer to assume that the repeated complaints about the missing bust were the result of a misapprehension.

I had arrived at the market under something of a misapprehension, thinking it was going to be a rusticated reincarnation of the late Hold Everything (a competitor of the Container Store also owned by Williams-Sonoma).

A judge said residents were "under something of a misapprehension" regarding the equipment and risks.

Much of it is down to a misapprehension of what it is Klinsmann has achieved in his five years as the USA coach.

Nearly thirty years later, in the last edition of the Philosophy, Whewell referred to the belief that "the discovery of laws and causes of phenomena is a loose hap-hazard sort of guessing," and claimed that this type of view "appears to me to be a misapprehension of the whole nature of science" (1860a, 274).

Maybe the perversity we all feel in the idea of striving at marriage — the reason so few of us do it — stems from a misapprehension of the proper goal.

When chaotic postwar conditions climaxed with Mussolini's March on Rome, in 1922, Marinetti seems to have expected Futurism to become the official culture of the new regime — a misapprehension like that of the contemporaneous Russian avant-garde, which identified itself with the Bolshevik Revolution.

VI) Mill agreed, "it is a misapprehension of the utilitarian mode of thought to conceive it as implying that people should fix their minds upon so wide a generality as the world, or society at large".

Nevertheless, the empirical world is not totally unreal, for it is a misapprehension of the real brahman.

Such a misapprehension of the publicist's usual relationship to sincerity will not get young Pollack very far at some of New York City's better-known public-relations establishments; but it stood him in good stead last week when he was flown into town to appear at a press conference advocating the use of Transcendental Meditation among schoolkids.